21 Things You Can't Do While Black

In the United States, sometimes your skin color is evidence enough against you.

Florida's
second sensational, race-tinged murder trial in less than a year is
underway. Michael Dunn, a white, 47-year-old software developer, shot and killed Jordan Davis,
a 17-year-old African American, as the teen sat in an SUV with three
friends. Charged with first-degree murder, Dunn is pleading self-defense
under Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law. He contends that
he argued with the teens (over what a witness says he called their "thug music") and fired on them after he claims he saw Davis brandish a shotgun. Police found no gun at the scene, and witnesses say Davis never had one.

Like the George Zimmerman trial, during which the self-styled
neighborhood watchman successfully argued that he shot and killed
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in self-defense, Dunn's case
has raised questions about Florida's broad self-defense law, racial
profiling, and how the two issues intersect. Would Martin and Davis be
alive if they weren't black? Would they have been afforded the benefit
of the doubt by their killers if they had been white? Their deaths
didn't happen in a vacuum. There's evidence that just being black in the
United States is often all it takes to arouse suspicion. Here are 21
examples from the last five years of some of the things black people
can't do without others thinking they're up to no good.

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